Thursday, October 16, 2014

KDE Gardening Team: K3b

As mentioned on other KDE Gardening Team bugs we are focusing on getting K3b 2.0.3 release out.

The release will be on 4th November if all goes to plan.

Also we are going through the bugs doing two things:

  • Checking if it still happens and asking people to give more info if needed
For bugs that are easy enough to reproduce (i.e. they do not involve having 13 CD burners or writing 50GB of data to a BlueRay disc) we are trying to reproduce them and if we can't ask the reporter for more information while setting the bug status to NEEDSINFO+WAITINGFORINFO

  • Classifying it regarding it's gardening potential
For bugs that we can reproduce or we think they have enough information we are classifying them in three groups using the gardening flag in bugzilla "+" for crashes that are really critical to be fixed before the release[1], "?" for bugs that seem to be relatively easy and someone could pick up and fix if has time but are not a problem if not fixed, and "-" for bugs that are out of the scope of the gardening initiative. Being out of scope of the gardening initiative doesn't mean the bug is more or less valid, it just means that it is not for the gardeners or not very involved people to fix this bug and requires people with more commitment.

You can visit https://community.kde.org/Gardening/K3b for the relevant bugzilla links.

[1] This should be a mostly empty list since we already have 2.0.2 out and doesn't make sense to delay 2.0.3 until a bug is fixed given 2.0.3 will be already better than 2.0.2

1 comment:

Saabzero said...

Thanks for the efforts! K3b is awesome!

My suggestion for other love projects would be kdesvn and kile.
Both are amazing software projects but a bit outdated and some bugs have sqeezed in over time.

Cheers!